"while Linda was pregnant, but separated when Billy was six months old. Linda married Ed Kovac, a police officer, and they had five children together. Bean attended Santa Ana High School, and won a state championship with the school's baseball team. He enrolled at Loyola Marymount University on an athletic scholarship to play college baseball for the Loyola Marymount Lions. After his junior year, the New York Yankees selected Bean in the 24th round of the 1985 MLB Draft. Though the Yankees offered Bean a $55,000 signing bonus, Bean followed through with his promise to return to Loyola Marymount for"
"scored 6 goals and had 4 assists while picking up 24 ground balls on the season. 2005 Season (Boston): Played in 2 games in his first season with the Cannons, recorded one goal vs. the Baltimore Bayhawks. Played college lacrosse at the University of Virginia. Won the 2003 NCAA Championship while being named a Third Team All American the same year. Was the ACC Tournament MVP with 5 goals in Virginia's win over Duke. Awarded the team MVP award in 2003 while scoring 24 goals that season. Joined the University of Virginia men's basketball team for the 2003-2004 season. Billy"
"(210). After receiving his bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1979, he attended the Boston Celtics rookie camp, but, suffering with a foot injury, he did not get a contract and joined Crystal Palace of the British Basketball League. During his rookie season, he led Palace to a 50–5 record. He later started for teams in Glasgow, Manchester, Guildford and Kingston. In 1984 he became a British citizen and made his debut for England. Off the court, he pursued a variety of broadcasting and business ventures, including a weekly show on BBC Radio 5 Live dedicated to American sports. From"
"carries, and won the Heisman Trophy. As he had in high school, he once again received varsity letters (called ""monograms"") in four sports (again baseball, football, basketball, and track) while at Notre Dame, becoming the third person to do so. He was a two-time unanimous All-American (1946 and 1947) and led Notre Dame to three national championships (1943, 1946 and 1947). And, in addition to winning the Heisman, he was named Associated Press Athlete of the Year. He was paid USD$17,000 for his 1948 rookie season with the Bears and $20,000 for his fourth and final season. In his rookie"
"games while advancing to the regional finals in 1986. Holy Cross was among the best teams in the country in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and won the 1947 national championship with a team that included Hall of Famer Bob Cousy. Its combined record in the NCAA Tournament is 8–12. After a 63-year drought, Holy Cross defeated Southern University in the 2016 NCAA Tournament. Patriot League football was non-scholarship until the league presidents voted to approve football scholarships starting with the 2013 recruiting class. Since then, each school has been allowed no more than the equivalent of 15 scholarships"
"it to the NCAA Finals game in 1969. In 75 games, ""Mr. Hustle"" averaged 14.1 points game throughout his career and tallied a total of 1,056 points. He received the ""Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award"" his Senior year, which is given to the nation's best player under . After his Senior season at Purdue, he participated in the Kentucky-Indiana College All-Star Game, where he first played with a three-point line. Billy went 6 for 7 beyond the arc and discovered his specialty as a three-point shooter in the next level (the NCAA didn't have a standard three-point line until 1986-87 while"
"what is now a comprehensive program, for the athlete that aspires to play at the next level in any sport. His love for sports started at an early age while playing little league baseball and football in Americus, GA. He continued to excel in athletics in high school and lettered in five sports throughout his high school career. He attended Middle Georgia Community College on a football scholarship and is a 2-time Junior College All- American. He continued his education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. There, he was named Defensive Captain in 2000, and graduated with a degree"
"was even named captain of the ""Journal-American"" All-Scholastic team. He then began to plan for college. His family had wanted him to attend a Catholic school, and he wanted to go somewhere outside New York City. Boston College recruited him, and he considered accepting the BC offer, but it had no dormitories, and he was not interested in being a commuter student. Soon afterward, he received an offer from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts about forty miles (64 kilometers) west of Boston. He was impressed by the school, and accepted the basketball scholarship it offered him."
"School Sports Focus Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2000, '01) and earned honorable mention All-American honors from USA Today as a junior in 2000. His father, Bill Carter, was his high school coach. Carter attended Stanford University, where he majored in human biology and was Pre-Med, graduating in just three years. He was awarded Stanford's Most Valuable Freshman Award in and helped the Cardinal to the final eight in the 2002 College World Series and 2003 College World Series. He was mainly a designated hitter for the team, and played some outfield as well. Carter was drafted as a first baseman"
"Bo Jackson Vincent Edward ""Bo"" Jackson (born November 30, 1962) is a former baseball and American football player. He is the only athlete in history to be named an All-Star in both baseball and football, and one of few to do so in two major sports. He is widely considered one of the greatest athletes of all time. While at Auburn University, Jackson won the 1985 Heisman Trophy, annually awarded to the best collegiate football player in the United States. Jackson was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996. Jackson was originally drafted first overall by the"
"in 1997 and went on to be the first African American to represent North Carolina in the Miss USA pageant. She did not place among the top ten semi-finalists in the nationally televised competition, but her preliminary average score ranked her fourteenth. Crystal was born in North Carolina yet raised in 6 different states. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she obtained a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication with a concentration in Dramatic Arts. Most recently, she was hired by HAMA Entertainment to host a show that covers ""Hollywood"" for Africa,"
"was named Tournament MVP three times. Cleary was also named to the All-Conference Team in high school three times, twice named to the All-State Team and twice named to the All-Region Team. He finished his high school career with over 110 points. Cleary was also an All-Conference basketball and baseball player in his senior year of high school and had been recruited to play all three sports in college. Cleary played college soccer at Boston College from 1998 to 2001 for Ed Kelly. He was a Big East All-Conference selection and Regional All-American his senior season and the recipient of"
"from art and instead toward athletics. He was diver on the swimming team and a hurdler on the track team, and sports now dominated his life. He earned awards for basketball, diving, football and track, and ultimate honors in the Brooklyn College Sports Hall of Fame. He then received a basketball scholarship from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he continued to focus on sports. But after his father suffered a heart attack, he returned to New York to help his family, and enrolled in the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He studied to become a fine art illustrator,"
"assistant coach that began with the 2012–13 season. Kelly was responsible for recruiting and post player development. In late June 2016, she was announced as a new assistant coach at Tennessee Tech University under head coach, Kim Rosamond. Crystal Kelly Crystal Kelly (born September 15, 1986) is a professional basketball player who played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Kelly played for Sacred Heart Academy in Louisville, Kentucky, where she was named a WBCA All-American. In addition, Kelly was named the 2004 Kentucky Miss Basketball. She participated in the 2004 WBCA High School All-America Game where she scored four"
"He was named Honorable-mention All-state as a shooting guard in basketball. Although he didn't practice track because of time conflicts with the other sports, but was involved in the Abilene Recreation Department program, registering a 100-yard dash in 9.8 seconds. In 1969, he was inducted into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame. In 2013, he was inducted into the Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame. After graduating from high school in 1956, he was a highly touted and sought after college football recruit and ultimately accepted an athletic scholarship from Southern Methodist University. The NCAA would later give"
"to which he transferred. During Cousy's senior year of 1949–1950, his fate changed in a match against Loyola of Chicago at Boston Garden. With 5 minutes left and Holy Cross trailing, the crowd started to chant ""We want Cousy!"" until coach Julian relented. In these few minutes, Cousy scored 11 points and hit a game-winning buzzer-beater coming off a behind-the-back dribble. The performance established him as a team leader, and he then led Holy Cross to 26 straight wins and a Number 4 national ranking. A three-time All-American, Cousy ended his college career in the 1950 NCAA Tournament, when Holy"
"school career, including 38 100-yard games, which is second in Texas prep history behind Robert Strait's 41 (Ken Hall and Billy Sims also had 38 100-yard games). Worster led the Bridge City Cardinals to a 13–1 season and the Class 3-A state football championship in 1966, running for 2,210 yards and being named a High-School All-American. After his graduation, Bridge City High School retired his jersey. He was later inducted into the Texas High School Hall of Fame. Worster was heavily recruited to play football for several schools. He chose to accept a scholarship to the University of Texas at"
"School. Throughout his school years, he was active in sports, including American football, basketball, and track and field. After graduating from R.C. Palmer Secondary, he earned a full football scholarship to the University of Hawaii. He played sparingly in 1995, but in 1996 started eleven games for the Warriors and was named an all-WAC Conference Academic. He transferred to Portland State University in 1997, where he was named first team All-Big Sky in his junior year, and All-American/All-Conference/Scholar Athlete of the Year in his senior year. He was a team captain for both his years at Portland State. He graduated"
"States U-17, U-18, and U-20 national soccer teams. On February 13, 2013, she made her debut in the senior team playing a friendly match against Scotland national women's football team. Born in New Hyde Park, New York, to Vincent and Rhonda Dunn, Crystal was raised with her brother Henry in Rockville Centre, New York where she attended South Side High School. At South Side, she was a four-year starter as forward and midfielder and team captain in 2008 and 2009. She lost only two matches in three seasons at South Side and helped lead her team to New York state"
"Crystal Kelly Crystal Kelly (born September 15, 1986) is a professional basketball player who played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Kelly played for Sacred Heart Academy in Louisville, Kentucky, where she was named a WBCA All-American. In addition, Kelly was named the 2004 Kentucky Miss Basketball. She participated in the 2004 WBCA High School All-America Game where she scored four points. Kelly attended college at Western Kentucky University, where she was a standout basketball player. She broke the WKU women's basketball program record for career rebounds, and earned a place in the top 25 career scorers in NCAA"
"Cristina played college lacrosse at James Madison University. Source: CUT = missed the half-way cut<br> ""T"" indicates a tie for a place Amateur Denny McCarthy Denny McCarthy (born March 4, 1993) is an American professional golfer. McCarthy was born in Takoma Park, Maryland. He played varsity golf and basketball at Georgetown Preparatory School. He played college golf at the University of Virginia where he was a two-time All-American. McCarthy played on the 2010 Junior Ryder Cup team along with Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, and Ollie Schniederjans. While he was a senior at UVA, McCarthy led the United States to victory"
"skating, tennis and track. After her father, an employee at ""Sports Illustrated"", learned about a program aimed at encouraging minority participation in fencing, she began to take up the sport at age 11 at the Peter Westbrook Foundation, whose founder, Olympic saber bronze-medalist Peter Westbrook, has been her mentor. Her brother Keeth, 18 months her senior, took up the sport six months later. Smart graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School, as a chemistry major, in 1997. She attended Barnard College at Columbia University in Manhattan, graduating in 2001 with a degree in economics. She was recognized as an NCAA All-American"
"field, and as a youth baseball player he was a six-time all-star and a Bambino League World Series champion. Bobby went to Freemont High School in Oakland, and was a three-year letterman in both Baseball and Basketball. In his Senior year, Bobby was recognized as the Oakland Athletic League’s “Player of the Year,” an award handed out annually to the best ballplayer in the Oakland Unified School district. Bobby was offered, and accepted a full scholarship offer to University of California, Berkeley, but was subsequently selected in the 11th round of the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft by the Atlanta"
"in front of the school's gymnasium and event center. OU replaced its statue, and those of its other Heisman winners, the next spring. Billy Vessels Billy Dale Vessels (March 22, 1931 – November 17, 2001) was a gridiron football player. He played college football at the University of Oklahoma and won the Heisman Trophy in 1952. Vessels went on to play professional football with the National Football League's Baltimore Colts and the Western Interprovincial Football Union's Edmonton Eskimos. Vessels led the Oklahoma Sooners to the national championship in 1950, scoring 15 touchdowns. In 1952, he won the Heisman Trophy. Playing"
"in both baseball (1952) and basketball (1947). The Holy Cross baseball team won the NCAA National Championship in 1952 and remains the only team from the northeastern part of the United States to have won the College World Series. The Crusaders also reached the College World Series in 1958, 1962, and 1963. In the last two of these seasons, the team featured pitcher Dick Joyce, who briefly made the major leagues, and third baseman John Peterman, who after a short minor-league career went on to become a successful entrepreneur who was parodied on ""Seinfeld"". The Crusaders won their first Patriot"
"all the children in a production number; been named ""People"" magazine's ""Sexiest Man Alive""; and won the New York primary election. At the end of the broadcast, Crystal said he wished he could be back next year but ""I've just been informed Jack Palance will be hosting."" Years later, Crystal appeared on ""Inside the Actors Studio"" and fondly recalled that, after the Oscar ceremony, Palance approached him during the reception: ""He stopped me and put his arms out and went, 'Billy Crystal, who thought it would be you?' It was his really funny way of saying thank you to a"
"through May 1934, where he was a star in football and track. He received all-district honors for football in his sophomore and junior years. He dropped out before the end of his senior year due to the views of his family that the cost of graduating, such as buying a picture and gown, were too wasteful considering the ongoing Depression. This may also have been affected by a case of influenza he contracted. He finished his high school education at Texas Military College on a two-year sports scholarship and won all-conference honors for his participation in football. He graduated on"
"veteran, he knew he had no need of an athletic scholarship. Justice sent a proposal to both universities asking each to allow him to attend on his G.I. tuition money and give the scholarship to his wife. Only North Carolina accepted this. Thus Justice attended and played college football at the University of North Carolina under Carl Snavely, where he played tailback for four years. Justice was also an active member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity in his years at UNC. While there, he was named an All-American in 1948 and 1949, and finished second in the Heisman Trophy"
"and the 300 intermediate hurdles. Caleb was all-state in all 4 of his events, 100m, 200m, Long Jump, and the 4x100 meter relay. They were then both invited to play football and run track for the University of Oregon. In their freshman redshirt year, together they were awarded scout team player of the week a total of 8 times throughout the 2003 season. During winter training, Caleb was awarded the ironman award calculated by strength to bodyweight ratios. In the spring of 2004, they decided to walk away from football and focus on Track and Field for the 2005 season"
"All-America in 2007 and 2009 by the Golf Coaches Association of America. He was the Individual runner-up at the NCAA Championship in 2007 and 2009. He was a member of the 2007 American Walker Cup team. Stanley studied Sports Management while at Clemson. In 2009 he was given the Ben Hogan Award for best college golfer. Stanley turned professional after the 2009 U.S. Open and made his pro debut a week later at the Travelers Championship. Late in 2010, Stanley earned a 2011 PGA Tour card through Q-School where he finished in a tie for ninth. In his debut season"
"Society, co-class president and a candidate to be valedictorian with a 3.8 grade point average. In addition to football, he played on the baseball, basketball and track and field teams. In track, he ran the 100 meters in 10.5 seconds and 200 meters in 21.6 seconds. He was city champion in the triple jump as a junior. He was a starting small forward on the three-time DCIAA championship basketball team. He received second-team All-conference honors his senior year. By the eve of the DCIAA Championship game held on Thanksgiving Day (November 27, 1997), he had 35 scholarship offers. Before his"
"the only one in the school's history. His running and passing skills gained him selection as a high school All-American. His football talents, including the reputed ability to pass with either hand, earned him the nickname ""Super Bill."" He also participated in the Big 33 football game for the Texas All-Stars in 1966. His father was a baseball coach and Bradley dreamed of playing professional baseball. He was a talented shortstop who was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 7th Round of the 1965 Major League Baseball draft. He was offered $20,000 to sign, but turned it down because"
"excelled in football as well, as an All-High halfback and member of three City Championship teams. He won All-High honors in baseball while leading the Macks to the 1946 City Championship. Although MacKinnon played baseball at Canisius College and captained the 1950 squad, his greatest success as a college athlete came in basketball. His honors included selection to the All-Western New York team in 1948–1950, to the All-Auditorium team in 1949–1950, and as a Sporting News Second-Team All American in 1950. In perhaps his greatest moment of individual distinction, MacKinnon edged out College of the Holy Cross's Bob Cousy as"